Be purposeful. Be patient, and be active!

Do more of what you love, less of what you tolerate and none of what you hate.

If you're interested, you will do what is convenient; if you're committed, you'll do whatever it takes.

Be very careful what you say to yourself because someone very important is listening . . . YOU!

Here's the problem. Most people are thinking about what they don't want, and they're wondering why it shows up over and over again.

Are you a hoarder of more negative thoughts or positive ones? Whichever ones you hoard, grow into trees and then forests.

Anyone can stay the same. It takes courage to change

We can have whatever it is we choose, I don't care how big it is. You become what you think about, but you also attract what you think about most.

The reason you have what you have is because that is what you have decided to settle for right now. Change your mind, change your life.

The most wonderful gift one human being can give to another, is in some way, to make that person's life a little bit better to live.

If you want to earn a million bucks a year, eliminate mediocrity from your thinking and your life.

Grumble weakens the spirit.Despair is counterproductive.Both are true toxicants in life.

I am mad, and I embrace it.

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

Inner peace: Don't leave home without it.

People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.

I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument.

Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.

Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.

Reproof should not exhaust its power upon petty failings.

My goal was to make good music and keep my name poppin'.